Means for ornamenting plastic surfaces.



Patented Dec. l6, I902.

MEANS FOR URNAMENTING PLASTIC SURFACES.

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ERNST P. BRANDT, or BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

MEANS FOR ORNAMENTlNG PLASTIC SURFACES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 715,965, dated December 16, 1902.

7 Application filed August 13, 1902. Serial No. 119,524. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNST P. BRANDT, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Ornamenting Plastic Surfaces, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to a. new and useful means for ornamenting plastic tiling, floors, pavements, and similar surfaces; and the object is to provide an improved means whereby a plastic may be superficially ornamented by characters, fanciful and ornamen tal figures impressed and imprinted therein.

The invention embodies a flexible and yielding impression plate or mold whereby a design may be made and impressed in a plastic surface.

The invention also includes a yielding mold, which may be impressed and imprinted in a plastic surface, all as will be hereinafter fully specified and the novelty thereof particularly pointed out and distinctly claimed.

The invention is not restricted to any particular design or configuration, as it embodies and includes all molds of a flexible body-plate having a defined circumscribed figure the walls of which extend from the surface and are adapted to be impressed in plastic material to make a coincident figure.

In the annexed drawings, illustrative of the improved molds, Figure 1 is a view showing the invention as applied to a corner-piece of a rectangular block, section, or part of a tile, floor, or pavement. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of Fig. 1, showing the Walls of the figure, including a mosiac delineation of a piece of tile, pavement, or floor. Fig. 3 is a View showing the invention as applied to a centerpiece, including a mosiac delineation of a piece of tile, pavement, or floor. Fig. 4 is a plan view of a mold embodying my invention. Fig. 5 is'a central section through the mold. Fig. 6 is a plan view of a mold, showing a different figure-outline from that-shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 7 is a central section through Fig. 6.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the body or base of the mold, made up usually of double textile material 1, laid together, and a backing of fine woven-metal netting 2, the whole being stitched together or otherwise suitably secured, as indicated by the dotted lines in the drawings, the outlines of which conform approximately to the rough contour of the inclosed figure.

B designates the walls of the mold,.made of such shape as to inclose the design of the figure intended. These walls are made of any suitable materialsuch as cord, rope, or other flexible materialand are secured between the two pieces of material forming the body of the mold, or they may be secured on the face of the mold, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. I prefer to secure the rope between the double pieces of textile material, so that with the material covering the wall the contour in cross-section will be prominent and complete, as shown in Figs. 5 and 7 of the drawings. The mold thus prepared is ready for use. To use it, the space within the wall or walls is filled with a colored plastic material and the mold then laid face down on the surface of a base of plastic material constituting the floor orpavement, and then sufficient pressure is applied to the wire-netting to press the form into the material of the floor, and by the process of absorption and pressure the material in the mold is thoroughly incorporated in the base material, and the material of the mold being of a different color from the material of which the floor or pavement is composed the result is a pleasing contrast in colors.

In Fig. 1 the walls outside of the outlines of the figure to be impressed in the basic plastic are intersected by cross-walls W, the impression of which adds to the ornamentation. The impression and incorporation having been accomplished,the mold is removed and then refilled for another application.

It will be perceived that by the incorporation of the material in the plastic base and the fact of the body of the mold being flexible the mold does not adhere to the surface of the base, but may be readily lifted off and removed from its position on the plastic surface; there being no cohesive affinity between the body of the pavement and the material of which the mold is made.

It is apparent that more than one figure may be made on a single mold, as indicated in the drawings, and that a variety of colors may be produced by putting different colors in the material in the mold. The confiningwall of the mold prevents the colored plastic material carried by the mold from getting beyond the limits of the figures, and the impression of the wall distinctly outlines the decoration and forms a groove or depression about it.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a mold forornamentinga plastic surface, comprising an open-work backing, a textile covering secured thereon, and a wall defining the outlines of a figure secured to the covering.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a mold for ornamenting a plastic surface, comprising a backing of wire-netting, a double textile covering secured to the netting, and a flexible material secured between the textile ERNST P. BRANDT.

lVitnesses A. M. GATELY, A. T. CAMPBELL. 

